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Ridgway, Co

Durango, Colorado

• Part of a small flexible team providing specialized skills where larger crews or scheduling would otherwise make the project infeasible• Transported, mixed and applied various herbicides for noxious weed control• Used and maintained backpack sprayers • Utilized Argo UTV and pressurized spray system for herbicide application• Fell ponderosa, tamarisk and russian olive for timber harvest/ pest control• Maintained and improved hiking, biking and dirt bike trails• Helped troubleshoot, build and install 2 pedestrian bridges• Worked alongside public, private and non-profit organizations• Performed routine maintenance on fleet truck• Camped onsite for 2-8 days in various weather conditions

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Trained and oversaw interns in lab procedures and safety practices• Handled hazardous materials (mainly caustic materials and strong acids)• Helped manage lab inventory and scheduling• Wrote technical reports for clients and reviewed company publications • Traveled to project sites for sampling, instrument installation and monitoring• Communicated scientific concepts to clients and coworkers • Created templates and wrote excel VBA macros to perform remedial tasks/calculations• Developed and/or validated analyses for determining carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide fluxes• Built, installed and maintained multilevel thermal and gas sampling soil probes• Worked with a variety of ovens, mass flow controllers, pressure transducers, scales, pressurized gases and other standard lab equipment • Generated basic site maps using QGIS• Created the company’s QA/QC system which is used for all lab work

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Maintained a bioretention site for water quality and water quantity research• Serviced pressure transducers and compressed gas lines• Reprogrammed Campbell Scientific dataloggers• Analyzed research data to determine pollutant removal efficiencies and water quantity reductions• Inspected best management practices (BMPs) post-construction to determine functionality and maintenance needs• Compared as-built BMPs to reputable specifications and guidelines• Recommended alterations to improve BMP efficiency and ease maintenance• Identified site opportunities to increase stormwater quality

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Prepared soil, needle and wood samples for carbon and nitrogen analysis• Built and installed soil thermocouples for prescribed burn research• Tested and maintained LI-COR gas analyzers • QA/QC of forest inventory data• Developed spreadsheets and Excel VBA macros• Ran inventory and prepared equipment lists• Trained new employees in lab procedures and operational safety

Environmental Engineering

Civil Engineering